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Off-Circuit
1 January 2023 – 27 October 2073
A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.
Celluloid Sunday
3 January 2023 – 26 September 2073
An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.
Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin
:
The Cinema of Marguerite Duras
18 July – 9 September 2024
In 1966, Marguerite Duras, already a prolific writer of novels, plays and screenplays, turned to filmmaking, co-directing the first of her nineteen films. In collaboration with Another Gaze Editions, the ICA presents a full retrospective of her shorts, features and televisual work, alongside several works she wrote, or to which she lent her voice.
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Highlights
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In Focus: Edward Yang
27 August – 1 September 2024
A programme of four films celebrating the work of Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang including brand new restorations of
A Confucian Confusion
and
Mahjong.
Off-Circuit
Last Things + Memories of an Unborn Sun + Q&A
30 August – 5 September 2024
Deborah Stratman's astonishing 16mm exploration of evolution and extinction, as told through the prism of minerals, is accompanied by Marcel Mrejen's short film exploring the relentless (neo)colonial exploitation of the Algerian territory.
In Focus: Edward Yang
A Confucian Confusion (4K Restoration)
31 August – 11 September 2024
Edward Yang's sweeping satire of 1990s Taipei charts the tangled web of emotional and professional manipulations among a group of young urbanites.
In Focus: Edward Yang
Mahjong (4K Restoration)
1 – 12 September 2024
Edward Yang’s penultimate film is an acerbic, sprawling tragicomedy, a poison love letter to Taipei as a rising cosmopolis of big money, big dreams, and big cons.
Without Permission:
A Jon Sanders and Anna Mottram Retrospective
10 – 22 September 2024
The ICA is delighted to present a retrospective of the films of Jon Sanders and Anna Mottram. Irreverent and punk in their making; subtle, affecting, and highly personal in their tone, Jon Sander and Anna Mottram’s underseen and under-shown films, crafted with virtually no budget and outside the traditional funding circuits, are unique and fascinating objects in the contemporary history of cinema.
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Weekly cinema releases
Off-Circuit
Our Body
11 August – 1 September 2024
French filmmaker Claire Simon documents the daily operations of a gynaecology ward in a Paris public hospital and in the process questions what it means to live in a woman's body.
Only the River Flows
16 August – 3 September 2024
Dedicated police detective Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong) is assigned the case of a series of horrific murders in a rural Chinese town, in this gripping thriller.
Kneecap
23 August – 5 September 2024
Rich Peppiatt’s remarkable feature debut is a fictionalised retelling of the story of the real-life trio of the same name.
Cadejo Blanco
23 August – 4 September 2024
Justin Lerner’s film is a story of revenge and personal resilience that considers the complexity of life in contemporary Guatemala under the perpetual threat of violence.
Paradise is Burning
30 August – 5 September 2024
Sisters Laura, Mira and Steffi get by on their own. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree. When the social services demand a family meeting, eldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.
Mandoob
30 August – 5 September 2024
In the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide,
Mandoob
brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a man racing against time to save his ailing father.
Black Dog
30 August – 5 September 2024
After being released from jail, Lang strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new journey together. Winner of Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
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Contemporary Portuguese Cinema
17 May – 26 September 2024
For the sixth straight year the ICA Cinema partners with independent film production unit Terratreme to present a selection of contemporary Portuguese cinema.
Rheim Alkadhi: Templates for Liberation
Film Programme
19 June – 7 September 2024
Curated by artist Rheim Alkadhi, this film programme accompanies the artist's first UK exhibition
Templates for Liberation
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In Focus: Edward Yang
Taipei Story (4K Restoration)
27 August – 6 September 2024
Edward Yang's mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity.
In Focus: Edward Yang
The Terrorizers on 35mm
29 August – 7 September 2024
Imbued with a languid and troubling sense of unease, Yang’s third feature
The Terrorizers
centres the mysterious connections that draw together a largely disparate group of individuals in contemporary Taipei.
Cinema Tehran
Chess of the Wind
Wed, 4 September
This rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema has reemerged as one of the most astonishing works of the country’s pre-revolutionary New Wave.
Cinema Tehran
The Stranger and the Fog
Thu, 5 September
Legendary Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie’s sophomore feature possesses both the epic dimensions of myth and the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream.
Burning Man: Art on Fire
Fri, 6 September
An inspirational insight into the spectacular art at the center of this annual celebration,
Burning Man: Art on Fire
, directed by BAFTA winner Gerald Fox, follows the unpredictable journey of the artists who defy reason to bring their massive installations and sculptures to the punishing Nevada desert.
Celluloid Sunday
Ju Dou on 16mm
Sun, 8 September
The second part of Zhang Yimou's loose 'Red Trilogy' is a visually arresting drama of secret love starring Gong Li. Screening on a rare 16mm print from the ICA archive.
Rubberists
Fri, 13 September
The first iteration of the Lates series; an exploration of fetishistic desire on VHS, in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive.
Hommage to Jan Švankmajer
Surviving Life + Intro by Gareth Evans
Sun, 15 September
A special screening of Jan Švankmajer's
Surviving Life,
presented in partnership with the Czech Centre London
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to celebrate the 90th birthday of the grand master of Czech animation.
PREVIEW The Substance
Tue, 17 September
Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, and Demi Moore star in Coralie Fargeat’s explosive new film.
Animal Nature Future Film Festival 2024
UK PREMIERE Grasshopper Republic
Sun, 29 September
Grasshopper Republic follows a local grasshopper trapping team in verité style, as these modern-day prospectors push into remote forests seeking their fortune by capturing this elusive prey.
Animal Nature Future Film Festival 2024
Shorts: Navigating the Anthropocene
Sun, 29 September
As humanity continues to transform and reshape nature, Earth has entered the Anthropocene, a new epoch where its natural regulatory capacities face unprecedented challenges. These short films will showcase the lives of individuals and ecosystems across the globe that have been disrupted and impacted by human activities.
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